At What Point Does the Accretion Process Turn a Clump

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Essay

At what point does the accretion process turn a clump of debris into a planetesimal?

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Definitions:

Deviation

In statistics, it refers to how far a particular data point is from the mean of the data set.

Negatively Skewed

A distribution with a tail that extends to the left, indicating that the majority of the data points are located towards the right of the mode.

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which data or values are spread or distributed across possible values or intervals.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric, bell-shaped distribution of data where most of the observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.